Psalms 40:8 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

KJV

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ASV

I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

WEB

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

YLT

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

DBT

To do thy good pleasure, myGod, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Messianic PsalmsHeb 10:5-7 applies — sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire.

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44 verses on the floor

Psalms 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Matthew 6:10
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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50:5 (though by a different word in Hebrew) denotes obedience by the common figure of hearing for obeying, it is evident that the clause is designed to express a devotion to God's will as avowed more fully in Ps 40:8, and already explained.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

I delight - This is eminently true, of Christ, and is here observed as an act of heroic obedience, that he not only resolved to do, but delighted in doing the will of God, or what God had commanded him, which was to die, and that a most shameful, and painful, and cursed death.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

It was to Christ his me at and drink to go on with the work appointed to him ( John iv. 34 ); and the reason here given is, Thy law is within my heart; it is written there, it rules there. It is meant of the law concerning the work and office of the Mediator, what he was to do and suffer; this law was dear to him and had an influence upon him in his whole undertaking.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 40:8JER 15:16 JOB 23:12
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PSA 40:8JER 15:16 REV 10:9-10
PSA 40:8JER 15:16 EZE 3:1-3
PSA 40:8JER 15:16 PSA 119:101-103
PSA 40:8JER 15:16 PSA 19:10
PSA 40:8ROM 7:22 PSA 119:35
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 40:8JHN 4:34 JHN 6:38
PSA 40:8JHN 4:34 JHN 5:30

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